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Severus' suffering and Dumbledore's amusement 💅
«....Sirius?»
Could JKR write yaoi
Okay, so I don’t think I can sell this as a study any more, can I? I swear it started as another fabric study! And then I got carried away 😬
Ummmmmm
Sooooooooo
I was verrrryyyy skeptical about the new HP HBO TV series but uhhhh
The new teaser trailer had me SOBBING
They nailed it, baby Harry is so precious😭😭😭 Ron and Hermione too!!
And they’re fleshing out Harry’s childhood at the Dursleys — the hair cutting scene mentioned in the books?? Harry at primary school?!! I’m going to be HEARTBROKEN I just know it, and I cannot wait
He looks so sad and scared oh my gosh😭💔
Also FIRST TINY GLIMPSE OF GINNY!!!
And the snowball fight?!!! And Harry and Ron roasting marshmallows in the common room fire??! And Harry and Ron being adorable besties on the train?!!!
I am LIVING for all the little domestic friendship moments we’re going to get oh my GOSH
Also a moment for the quidditch robes omg I loveee them
TL;DR I’m going insane and this show looks like it will be such a gift
it’s also a crazy leap in logic to go from “the gang never fix the establishment” to “the HP books are pro establishment”. So much of the books is dedicated to outlining the ways the ministry and the press are complicit in Voldemorts second rise to power. How do you read OOtF and come away with the message that HP is teaching children to uncritically accept authority and the status quo
Exactly, OotP goes quite hard. Hermione basically becomes the brain behind a magical resistance movement. She picks people with potential power to spread counter-propaganda (Luna and Skeeter) + a public face (Harry). She has countermoves planned in advance for if one member ever betrays the group that involve "sneak" being written on their face. It's not subtle.
But also, the epilogue is literally about showing Harry encouraging a change in the system through his son. That interraction with Albus, telling him that it's ok if he goes to Slytherin? That's what it is. Part of what makes Slytherin such a nesting ground for "dark wizards" is that there is a pattern of pro-Muggle families sneering at it and anti-Muggle families proudly encouraging their kids to go there (and remember the context, the Hat really lets you pick), creating a nice little bubble where pure blood supremacists are essentially feeding each other with their vile rhetoric without much push back. So Harry telling Al it's okay if he's sorted into Slytherin, is really him recognising the danger in this long-held status quo and rejecting it. It's pretty significant that this is how JKR chose to end the saga imo.
also it's kind of wild to just assume that people haven't been making positive changes at the ministry from within over the last 19 years. like... how else are you supposed to change things but from within? When Harry won the ministry had been under Voldemort's control, so that government collapsed and a new one took control. Even if you think over throwing the corrupt government is the answer, that literally happened.
It's like these people think that any government is inherently bad, which is... certainly a take.
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tom riddle contemplating his prospects... 🪄💫🐍
this fandom gives regulus the complexity that petunia has in cannon, and i stand by that.
I'm curious about what you mean by this! Could you explain?
yes i would love to!!!! the original post was inspired by a comment i saw on tiktok, saying that there is a clear difference between regulus/barty/evan ect and petunia/bellatrix/narcissia/umbridge ect if we are talking about cannon, and i, in that moment, just thought about how hypocritical it was for the marauders fandom specifically to claim to not care about cannon when it came to characters (especially the men), and giving them more depth and character building, whereas the women are more commonly held to the characters we see in cannon, and when ever someone shares a head cannon about them [the women] that paints them as a better or more complex character than they are in cannon, it’s always followed by a slew of comments saying “but the were a bad person”.
what i meant by “this fandom gives regulus the complexity that petunia has in cannon”, im talking about the canonical points in the story at which shows how petunia became the way that she is. as an older sister who was constantly compared to her younger sister, and was left in her shadow, that built up a lot of resentment, and made her the bitter and abusive person we see in the books, however she was not always like that.
whenever regulus is portrayed in fandom, it’s always giving him the same sort of character arc where he was slowly forced into this hateful role by his family, however in the end he did the right thing by betraying voldemort. and i think it very important to note that i have nothing against this portrayal of regulus, i have loved regulus’ character since i was 8, long before joining this fandom. the problem i have is people using this portrayal as the end all be all for who regulus is, when it is in fact a headcannon.
from what we know in cannon (which admittedly is biased, because it’s from sirius, who dos not like his brother in cannon), regulus was a voldemort fanboy and always had been. the only reason he wanted to destroy the locket was because voldemort almost killed his beloved house elf kreature, he dint have a come to jesus moment where he decided to do the right thing. his actions, while indicative of being rebellious against voldemort and the death eaters was done purely out of selfish reasons, and not for the greater good.
the tag “the hypocrisy in this fandom drives me nuts”, is because of the points i listed above. in my observations i have learned that the women characters who are given complex story arcs because we see them more in cannon, but they aren’t good people, are more likely to be chalked up to their bad actions and personalities, than the male characters who the only thing we know about the is that they were death eaters are given complexity by the fandom in an attempt to “redeem them” or “justify their actions”.
i spend a lot of time thinking about regulus and petunia because i think they are both relatively similar, and have both always had a special place in my heart. this is ofc just my opinion, and if you disagree you disagree.
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ahhhhh, thank you for explaining!
And yeah, people love to give the men a redemption arc while absolutely hating on the women.
Another point that this made me think of is that, the fandom also seems to have a harder line for bullying/abuse of children than for murder. For example, they hate Snape bc he bullied children. But they can somehow ignore murder on Barty and Evan's part and they seem to be slightly more inclined to attempt to redeem Bellatrix (though the fandom still can't fully get there perhaps bc she's a woman). But Petunia and Umbridge: forget it. lol. I find that interesting.
in regards to Regulus: yes, he and Petunia are so similar! I see what you meant by that now haha. the sibling dynamics between the Evans sisters and the Black brothers are quite similar and oh so juicy. I love it.
Also in regards to Regulus and his switching sides: I'd have to push back on the idea that we know he only turned for selfish reasons. We know that Kreacher was the catalyst. Kreacher was his turning point. Could that mean that he only cared about Kreacher and nothing else? yes. but it could also mean that it was his breaking point. what did he see in the DE that made this the last straw? what had he seen Voldemort do that he knew he couldn't allow him to be immortal? if he'd done it only for Kreacher, I imagine he'd have mentioned it in his note.
And yes yes, those are headcanons, but I just hesitate when people say definitive things about how Regulus felt, what he was thinking, and why he did what he did. I just don't think there's enough textual info to say for sure.
Plus, he was a kid when he joined the DE. Maybe he never really believed in it, was just going along with it bc he felt like he was supposed to. Or maybe he was like Draco and believed in it up until he realized how awful Voldy was but didn't know how to escape. Maybe he felt like avenging Kreacher was his only way out bc he had no one else to turn to, so what's a little death in return for finally doing the right thing?
Okay, sorry I love to wax poetic about Regulus Black 😅
But yes, on the way fandom treats the men vs the women, we agree. The hypocrisy is wild.
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He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family […] The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him. (chapter 16, dh)
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thinking about travers being on albus ass all the time about fighting grindelwald and then witnessing one interaction between them, or just overhear one talk grindelwald has about dumbledore, and going "you know what i sort of get why you stay in your classroom now :/"
Travers:... and then he went on about how no other but him is ever allowed to betray him and that he’d dismember every single employee of the ministry if they as much as bruised him. :/
Vinda *sympathetic* : Yes, sounds like Gellert.
Queenie *already pouring Travers a glass of wine* And did he say that it was their fate to meet?
Travers: :/ And that to rule alongside Albus was his—
Queenie/Vinda *simultaneously* —birthright.
Travers: …
Vinda: …
Queenie: …
Travers: …he said he’d bite open Albus’ lips to form a new blood pact if that was necessary.
Queenie *nods empathically*: Wine, dear?
Travers: …yes.
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props to jkr for the whole “it is right to liberate people even if they don’t want to be liberated” narrative with the house elves as a metaphor for housewives because I feel like it’s impossible to write that without getting misinterpreted as claiming enslaved people just don’t want to be freed